.NET applications use configuration files to change the way they behave at runtime.…These configuration files are located in the same folder as the…application executable.…Let me show you a few configuration files inside Visual Studio.…I've opened a Solution called ConfigurationFiles.…It contains a ConsoleApplication, a FinancialLibrary DLL, and a WebApplication.…I'm going to start by looking at the WebApplication.…They commonly have a configuration file called the Web.config.…It's added automatically in the project template.…

And this contains settings in an XML format that might be used by this web…application. Now, in web applications, you typically have at least one Web.config…in the root directory of the web site, but you can also put other Web.configs in…children directories.…So here, you can see it's just XML.…There's a section called configuration, and below that is a subsection called…connectionStrings. And inside this connectionString is something with the name…ApplicationServices, and then below that it has some details of how to connect…

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11/16/2010

In Visual Studio 2010 Essential Training, author Walt Ritscher demonstrates how to use Visual Studio 2010 Professional to develop full-featured applications targeting a variety of platforms. Starting with an overview of the integrated developer environment, the course covers working with code editors, navigating and formatting code, and deploying applications. Also included are tutorials on running performance and load tests, and debugging code. Exercise files accompany the course.